Word: nicked
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...always desperation that drives the shift; sometimes it's simply the quest for job satisfaction. Nick Peters, 48, of Des Moines had spent years in hospital administration when he hit a wall. He had grown up believing "the man gets up, puts on his suit and tie, goes to work from 9 to 5 at the same place for 35 years," he says. "But I realized that's a bunch of hooey." In the fall, he will begin course work to become a "real-time" reporter, the modern moniker for a court reporter. The skill is in brisk demand...
...South is being accepted at all social levels--and working-class couples like the one played by Billy Bob Thornton and Halle Berry in the 2001 movie Monster's Ball have become more common. "That's the most potent development," says University of Alabama family-studies professor Nick Stinnett, "because it means a far wider portion of society now has a personal stake in doing away with the racial barriers that still exist here...
...terms of rankings, we don’t put much stock in them,” captain Nick Blannin said. “We knew that if we didn’t perform at our best, we didn’t have a good chance of winning...
...used his favorite pinch hitter, sophomore Rob Wheeler, in the seventh. Senior Nick Seminara had pinch run for Wheeler. Sophomore A.J. Solimine was already pinch running for Dukovich. And he sure couldn’t let captain and closer Barry Wahlberg—who was slated to hit—grab...
Eight years ago, how many people thought that tapes of old games like the 1979 Rose Bowl or the 1968 World Series could have much value? Brian Bedol did. As a developer of Nickelodeon's all-rerun Nick at Nite sitcom programming in the early 1980s, he had proved, as he puts it, that "once you take something out of the attic, polish it and put it on display, it becomes an antique." So in 1995 Bedol created the Classic Sports Network and showed that the allure of sports TV is more powerful than most people imagined. ESPN bought Classic...